This is a reminder to mark your calendars for October 30th. Recall my post on the Categorically Not! series of events held at the Santa Monica Art Studios. The first one of the new season was a tremendous success, and I described it here.
Well, the next one of the new season is on Sunday. Here is K.C. Cole’s teaser:
Normally we think of space as an empty canvas—bland, passive and static. But Einstein taught us that space is elastic; it can wiggle and warp; bend light; cause objects to fall to the ground. Modern day physicists envision universes with up to 10 dimensions of space folded into complex shapes like so much Origami. Actors, athletes and dancers also explore space, using their bodies to make space palpable, filling it with structure, tension and emotion. Most basically, spaces are the places we inhabit; they can bring us together or keep us apart. The space we’re in determines, to a large extent, both our perspectives and our possibilities.
For our October Categorically Not! Case Western Reserve University physicist Lawrence Krauss—author of the popular books The Physics of Star Trek, Atom, and most recently Hiding in the Mirror—will explore our longstanding love-affair with the idea that there is more out there—literally—than meets the eye, perhaps tucked away in extra spatial dimensions. From a more down to earth perspective, USC geographer Michael Dear, who has just completed a 4,000-mile exploration of the US-Mexico border, will talk about the way we create ‘place’ out of ’space’ in our personal lives, communities and our world. Without geography, he wisely says, there would be no society. Bringing in the artistic dimension, we have Margo K. Apostolos, [picture top left, USC news] Director of Dance at the University of Southern California and former NASA Faculty Fellow at JPL; Margo works not only with human dancers and athletes, but also (dancing?) robots. She will discuss dance as an art of space, time and motion.
As usual, it is held at the Santa Monica Art Studios, come at 6:00pm for drinks, cookies and a look around the space, and there’s a 6:30 start. For more information, visit the Categorically Not! website.
Hope to see some of you there!
-cvj
P.S. In view of last time, please send pointed critical remarks about the above quoted blurb to KC Cole, and not to me, thanks. However, discussion and exploration of the ideas within it are welcome in the comment section, as usual.
October 26th, 2005 at 12:48 am
Very Cool! I would love to get something like this going in San Diego!
October 26th, 2005 at 1:52 am
From a artistic point of view, there had to be some vision other then traffic to help us see that valuation of what clocks can mean? It’ll be interesting to see what his opening will be in conjunction with the other indivduals that will make up this presentation.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS:The insights that Einstein’s theories have given us about the basic workings of the cosmos, on scales as large as the visible universe itself, and going back to theearliest moments of the Big Bang, are invaluable to our understanding of nature and themselves should justify the support we provide for continuing research in general relativity and cosmology
http://genesis1.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/16gps.html
Of course we all noticed his new book?
October 27th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
[...] Here’s some news I’ve been bursting to tell you for a while, but had to wait until it was official. It is going to be announced tomorrow, so we’re ahead of the pack here. You may recall the science writer K.C. Cole, who I’ve mentioned before in connection with the programme Categorically Not! about which I’ve posted here, here and here, and whose comments also featured in a recent post by Sean. Well, she’s left the LA Times, and has moved to… USC! [...]
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:55 pm
[...] A collaboration between LAS (Physics and Astronomy) and the Annenberg School of Communication (to extend and bring Categorically Not! which I’ve told you about here, here and here, to USC and also move it around the city.) [...]
November 9th, 2005 at 1:13 am
[...] I just pulled the bits that I wanted out of the full sentence to make the shorter one. Ok, this might be a bit of an artificial example, but it precisely illustrates what took place at the end of last week’s Categorically Not! gathering. It also characterizes other presentations that I’ve seen in several places recently in the media, but it fills me with dismay when it is done by scientists who should know better. It leaves me speechless when it is done by scientists who should know better and in addition have spoken out about wanting better representation of science in the media. [...]
June 27th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
[...] K.C. Cole, moving force behind the Categorically Not! meetings that Clifford has blogged about, has left an interesting comment on Clifford’s post from September on Point of View. It’s provocative (and I largely agree with it), so I thought I would reproduce it here on the front page. Now that it’s time for our October Categorically Not!, I finally have a moment to respond to objections some people raised about my September blurb on the subject of Objectivity, or Point of View. [...]